Longtime friend in VoIP Jason Fischl has left Skype as of this past Saturday. The news came out via a Facebook page change. Fischl, who is one of the true experts in SIP and RTC, was heavily involved at Skype in the RTC efforts under Jonathan Rosenberg, as well as being the guy charged with figuring … Read more
Image via Wikipedia A few days ago eWeek and a few others picked up on the rumor that Avaya (the spinoff of Lucent and really Bell Labs) from over a decade ago was looking to purchase Radvision, long an inventor of real time communications technology out of Israel and New Jersey. The reason for the … Read more
Cellular companies that are taking their good old time to implement WiFi offload of traffic, including calls, may have to worry, especially those with heavy penetration levels in NYC as Skype is beating them to the punch when it comes to Wi-Fi calling. Today's news from FIerce and others of a deal with Towerstream, and … Read more
Need to send a special holiday greeting? Skype may have the answer with their "Say it With Skype" app. I have to have a sense of deja vu as this is the kind of thing we used to do with SightSpeed which had record a video message long before Skype even had video. But what … Read more
Yesterday Skype announced an upgrade of their Android client (2.6). The three main features added were: The new features include most of all extended battery life, on top of file sending of photos and videos. These features likely come from some of the technology acquired when they picked off QIK just before the sale to … Read more
This news is a week or more old but if nothing more, it's clever and immaginative. A few airlines flying out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport will use Skype to enable passengers to check in and then print their boarding pass. Passengers will be able to call Sheremetyevo and then do all the same things they normally do … Read more
Image via Wikipedia AT&T and T-Mobile have been playing chicken with the opposition regarding their wireless merger for sometime, so yesterday's move to pull their application from FCC review is simply both a negotiation tactic and a way to prevent potential shareholder litigation. Clearly the AT&T lawyers and accountants had a strong say in this. The … Read more
Last night a buddy and I went to our usual and always reliable Pamplemousse Grille to plan a few upcoming events with chef extroidanaire, Jeffrey Strauss, who is clearly the best chef to plan a party with in San Diego, especially when wine is involved. Last night Ray McKewon, founder of the XCeptional Music Company and I … Read more
Image via Wikipedia To be upfront and transparent, my view is the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile will eventually happen and all the details will get worked out between all the waring factions. Will the merger look the same as the way it did when announced. In the words of former WWE Superstar wrestler, "Stone … Read more
Commercializing and combining some technology, the people behind eFax/jFax, J2 Communications, have slickly pulled together eVoice, a new unified calling service. Basically, this is a decendent, though not related to Webley that was introduced in the late 90s if you look at it seriously, so it's not really, new new. With eVoice goes J2 is … Read more
